News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-21
THE STOMACH OF A MAN.
An Old New York err Gives Some Adj
vice in Regard TO it's Treatment.

An Old New Yorke Gives Some AID
vice III Regard to it's Treatment.
An old New Yorker, who was brought
! up in hotels and restaurants, and
knows all about eating, gave some
| points to a reporter of The San the
other day about the way for 81 man to
make friends with his stomach. "There
are two big mistakes that almost all per
sons make" said he. Gone is that they
dom eat the right things, and the other
is what they do eat they don't eat right.
Dyspepsia and indigestion are killing
more people than rum ten times over.
Why delirium tremens is Joy compared
with bad digestion. When a man has
the tremens he's happy sometimes, be-
cause he forgets himself, but when he's
got dyspepsia his stomach is always with
him, and he's always concious of it.
He can't sleep. His food doesn't taste
right. Boils break out over him. He's
morbid AL, his friends seem to have
deserted him and some day he goes off
and blows his brains out, and the public
and newspapers say he had business
troubles Business troubles! Why,
what does man care for business
troubles when his stomach is all right!
If his stomach is all right, his head will
be clear, and he'll prosper No glutton
Or dyspeptic can stand up alongside ola
man with sound stomach and q clear
head.
When you got up this morning whBt
did You do? Went right off to break
fast and filed yourself, with your nose
in your papers and your mind wander
ing over the EARTH You don't know
how much you ate, OF how long it took
For all the good it did you, you might
us well have swallowed bacon and corn
bread or turkey and buckwheat cakes,
up space in your stomach. Then, while
you ate, you gulped down ice water and
coffee alternately, and when you got
through you lit cigar and went down
town glad that you had done
part OF the work of the day.
''Ihat's not breakfasting. It's load
ing up your stomach, and it's worse for
you than if you hadn't eaten anything.
Then you have headache and feel bad,
and grow fat, and wonder why it all is.
It's because you don't pay as much at
tentiOn to- your stomach as you do to
your Office boy. Your stomach takes its
revenge by making you wretched. To
squelch it you pour lot of liquor into
it and gulp some ice water on that with
a cracker or pretzel and a bit of cheese.
What sort of mixture is that? Just
imagine the cheese and rum and pretzel
and think that something inside of you
has to get away with that. If you want
to drink, drink and enjoy your drink.
Don't down it and fling things at it
when you've got it down. Take a glass
of wine and enjoy it, but don't fling it
into your stomach as You would your
fist into somebody's eye. Your stomach
ought to be your friend, but if you go to
pitching into it it'll show fight, and you
may as well understand that it will get
the. best Of it.
"When you get up in the morning
take big drink of water. Your system
wants water first. An engine isn't first
fired up and then some water let into
the boiler. Clean your teeth, and let
the water run from the spigot while
your doing it. Then drink n pint of it.
Use common hydrant water; no ice, no
salt, no mineral water. Ordinary water
is good enough for an ordinarily healthy
man. Keep away from drugs and pills
and give your stomach show.
Ii you're in a hurry to read the
papers, read them before breakfast.
When you sit down to the breakfast
table be happy; you're going to do
something pleasant. Breakfast isn't q
penalty imposed on you or a task to be
performed as soon as possible, but a
pleasant, enjoyable occasion. Try and
have somebody talk to you, and talk
yourself. Laugh. Start off with fruit
some oranges, say. Then eat some
fish and stale bread, OF stale rolls OF
toast. If you want anything more, eat
some meat. Take your time to it all. [
stay at the table for an hour, and eat all
the time. Don't eat much, but take
your time to it. If you haven't time,
eat less. The time you spend at break
fast viii be saved over and over again
during the day.
eff you've been up the night before,
don't take a cocktail or ice water. Try
some broth and some tripe if your
pretty far gone. When
mans been off little his stomach is
raw and infamed. He doesn't want to
start right off with more rum. Let him
give his stomach show. It'll pay him
to. Coddle your stomach in the morn
ing and it'll stand up for you at night.
If you go pitching into it first thing it
will have its revenge.
"Don't smoke in the morning. Don't
rink in the morning. If you must
smoke and you must drink, wait until
your stomach is through with breakfast.
Try this thing of starting off fair and
square. You can drink more and smoke
more in the evening, and it won't tell
IN it. A mans stomach is his friend,
md if he'll only treat it kindly the first
lalf of the day it will show its appre-
,iation and stick by him at night.